Tim, this is an 'entailment' to our
yesterday's entailment posts. I will
explain, why.
I concluded (surprize!) that if insecure of
a meaning, I will take a look at MY dictionary (Webster and Am. Heritage),
where the latter only lists 'to entail' and both as: to have, secure
necessitate a (prescribed) succession (as in a will: inheritance), - a
consequence, - the Middle English word
refers only to property-succession. I had to conclude that my "tail-end"
view was acceptable.
As to RR's preferred usage, I find it in a closer relationship with the
'anticipation' concept (as in "what has to - or may follow)
than with the 'causality' which includes the (cause!)
origination as well. So (my very personal (odd?) paraphrasing): if there is
a(ny) 'situation', it may "anticipate" an "entailment".
Now you may find this very heretic. However,
what I learned about RR, the man, - he was an open-minded researcher who
would not excommunicate someone for a "heretic" idea. Unfortunately we
cannot rely on his opinion to newly emerging questions, only on his written
texts, which were topically formulated for certain points to
make.
I hope to have a chance to study his
unfinished last notes.
Without the bias 'how they relate to earlier
published material'. I hope to get a glimps of the 'not yet'
published.
A remark on 'heresy': If one studies a
'heavy' text intensely and repeatedly, one draws up a mental image and it is
very hard to overcome it. (Sort of forming a belief system).
Similarly, a constant discussion partner of someone in the
process of formulating ideas may not necessarily get, or remember the
final versions - which are mostly subject to a painful agony in the process
of a final writing formulation. It was only Zeuss, from who's head Athenae
popped out in total weaponry and Tesla, from who's head complete
electrical curcuit-designs popped out. (the latter maybe still after many
re-formulations? - no argument with Zeuss).
So please, try to clear your mind and
reconsider some examples in this sense which may not be totally identical to
the position of the steady longtime Rosen-students.
I repeat my main point: causality is a
model-based relation of both the originating and resulting ends, emphasis on
the former, entailment is the happening as resulted from unlimited
situations. (I wouldn't argue against application of it to model-situations
either, however it would convolute a clear-cut understanding).
(Keywords: attractor, anticipation,
bifurcation, emergence, change/process).
Have a good one
JohnM